Posted on 03/28/2012 2:52:04 PM PDT by Fred
A top Democrat in the Senate took a rare direct shot at GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney on Tuesday, arguing that Romney's past support of health care reform means the issue is "off the table" during the fall elections.
Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, the Democratic Conference vice chairman and former head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, blasted Romney during an outdoor press conference near the Supreme Court. The court is spending this week reviewing the constitutionality of the 2010 health care reform law that is President Barack Obama's signature domestic achievement.
Schumer said Romney's support of a similarly structured reform program when he was governor of Massachusetts disqualifies him from attacking Obama over the issue this fall, should Romney become the Republican presidential nominee.
"Romney's trying to disown what he did in Massachusetts, now that the individual mandate is unpopular with conservatives," Schumer said. "No matter what he tries to say now, Mitt Romney is a walking, talking amicus brief in favor of the president's health care law.
Not if Romney gets Romneycare passed in all 50 states like he’s suggested doing in the past. I suppose as President he can just cut off funds to the states unless they comply by implementing their own Romneycares.
I’m with you.
If both have mandates, is the main difference the fact one is a state government program and the other Federal?
Ine was for a state of 6.5 million and the other, hopefully to be ruled unconstitutional, is for 310 million people! Apples y oranges!
How about sleazy back room deals with Vlad and the former KGB guys in Russia.
Can Willard discuss that?
One is Federal and the other is state of Taxachusetts.
No more!
The SCOTUS is in the process of fixing Romney’s problem.
Newt could make Obamacare an issue. He would be great at it.
Time to call the Dem Senators and berate them for wasting a bunch of time on a GOD DAMNED POORLY WRITTEN LAW instead of focusing on UNEMPLOYMENT.
OK. I think I read all the responses, so here it gos. EVEN IF O & Mitt are neutral on O’care, do we not have a myriad of other issues to run on? Cap&Trade, Destruction of Capitalistic System, Selling out to all our foes (Russia, China, Islam, etc etc), Unemployment, EPA, Supreme Court picks, drilling, nuclear, coal fired electric plants, etc. I don’t know why GOP voters have backed Mitt. I personally think they held their noses because none of the others are better or have been knocked out of race. I really doubt Mitt would roll back everything, that’s why I pray USSCt will knock out Obamacare. But at least he will stop Obama from finally ending our way of life. It will also keep HHS secretary Sebelius (the life long bred Catholic true) from making ALL our health care and death panel decisions.
Granted everything negative about the Massachusetts health care plan (and I don't know how many of the negatives are Romney's fault and how many were beyond his control), if he is the nominee he can make a very simple argument against Obamacare:
It's a state issue. Massachusetts or any other state can decide what it wants. It's not the business of the federal government to impose a health care plan on everyone.
Thanks Fred. Schumer and Pravda, two peas, one pod.
Yeah.
Just coz Schumer says so, what makes it so?
I think the big difference is one is a state issue and the other federal.
Yep, but Schumer is counting on the sheeple not to know the difference. And the fact that the FED is trying to force ALL Americans to buy, just because they say so.
It isn’t fair to hold Romney responsible for Romneycare. He’s been turned upside down and shaken at least a couple of times since then, so it’s been erased. < /s>
A good portion of the base will stay home when the MSM is done showing just who this guy really is and then they get to delve into mormonism for the icing on the cake.
A schmuck telling a putz what he can’t say. LOL
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